BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Elliott Bay Book Company | January 01 2010- February 01 2010 PRODID:-//strange bird labs//Drupal iCal API//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100105T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100105T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/esposito URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/esposito SUMMARY:JOHN L. ESPOSITO at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100106T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100106T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/fbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/fbookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100106T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100106T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/preston URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/preston SUMMARY:DOUGLAS PRESTON DESCRIPTION:

Best-selling thriller author Douglas Preston gets things in the New Year off to an edgy start with this appearance for his newest\, Impact (Forge). Wyman Ford\, a former monk who became a CIA operative\, and figured in 2005's Tyrannosaur Canyon and 2008's Blasphemy\, returns to take on a secret expedition to Cambodia\, ostensibly the source of mysterious gemstones that don't appear to be made of the natural world. That's where things begin ... \\"Douglas Preston's wildly creative novels expertly blend real science and heart-stopping thrills. He is\, quite simply\, the new and improved Michael Crichton.\\" - Tess Gerritsen. \\"Brilliant ... full of huge ideas\, but intensely human\, too\, and intensely suspenseful.\\" -Lee Child.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100106T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100106T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/swanson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/swanson SUMMARY:DAVID SWANSON at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:

Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE\, in association with the BACKBONE CAMPAIGN. Astute blogger\, activist\, and organizer David Swanson\, cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org and creator of ProsecuteBushCheney.org\, visits with his new book\, Daybreak\: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Seven Stories). \\"Daybreak is an eye-opener about how our nation was hijacked by the Bush administration and how much repair work we\, as citizens\, must do. David Swanson\, who has been a one-man wonder leading the charge for accountability\, writes a compelling narrative that inspires not just outrage\, but ACTION.\\" - Medea Benjamin. \\"David Swanson will be remembered and well recognized as the citizen who held up a lamp in the darkness and cried\, as did good Tom Paine\, 'We have it in our power to begin the world all over again.'\\" - John Nichols\, from the Foreword. $5 ticket are available at the door starting at 6\:30 p.m. or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (also 1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255\, or see www.townhallseattle.org.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100108T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100108T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/yaeger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/yaeger SUMMARY:MERCEDES YAEGER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100109T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100109T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/james URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/james SUMMARY:SIBYL JAMES DESCRIPTION:

Sibyl James is a Seattle poet and teacher. She is also a poet and teacher of the world—\;she has had teaching residencies in Mexico\, Cote d'Ivoire\, Tunisia\, and China\, to name a few. A three-time recipient of Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowships\, the author of two memoirs\, and numerous poetry collections\, she reads here in this still\, very new year\, for her newest collection of poems\, China Beats (Egress Studio Press). \\"Sibyl James ... becomes deeply steeped in China during her year teaching there. Its reality mixes with her Westerner's consciousness in unique ways. James moves between dragons and Buddhas\, Chinese and English\, between being teacher and student\, listening for the underlying rhythm of all and rendering it in sensitive and elegant poems.\\" - Judith Roche. \\"Of those American poets who have written movingly of China while traveling and/or teaching there—\;including Lois Baker\, Willis Barnstone\, Allen Ginsberg\, Paul Hansen\, and very early on\, Eunice Tietjens—\;none have written finer lyrics than Sibyl James in her collection\, China Beats. James' poems are ... poems that in their depth of feeling\, tautly tuned music\, and keenness of detail touch to the quick of Chinese culture.\\" - Michael O'Connor.

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Here from her Bellingham home is noted New York Times science writer Carol Yoon. Her book\, Naming Nature\: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (W.W. Norton)\, is an exuberant account of the perception and ordering of species\, that has been much admired by scientists and lay readers alike. While documenting the development of scientific taxonomy\, she became interested in umwelt\, how animals (including humans) perceive the world in a way she describes as \\"idiosyncratic to each species\, fueled by its particular sensory and cognitive powers and limited by its deficits.\\" Praised everywhere from the prestigious journal\, Nature\, to O Magazine\, Naming Nature was named one of the best books of 2009 by New Scientist. \\"Yoon has a gift for making nature beautiful and the scientists who study it both passionate and occasionally hilarious. A great read.\\" – New Scientist.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100111T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100111T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/gawande URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/gawande SUMMARY:ATUL GAWANDE at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100112T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100112T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/ehrlich URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/ehrlich SUMMARY:PAUL R. EHRLICH at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100113T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100113T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/cibookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/cibookclub SUMMARY:ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/huerta URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/huerta SUMMARY:DAVID HUERTA with MARK SCHAFER at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100114T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/sacco URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/sacco SUMMARY:JOE SACCO at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:

Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Joe Sacco\, world renowned cartoonist and pioneer of nonfiction\, graphic narrative war reportage\, makes a rare but welcome Seattle appearance tonight to talk about his striking new book\, Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan). Set in Rafah\, at the bottom of the Gaza strip\, Footnotes in Gaza is both a portrayal of contemporary life in the community\, and of competing versions of a 1956 incident that left 111 Palestinian soldiers dead. \\"Joe Sacco's brilliant\, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory ... He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold.\\" - New York Times Book Review. \\"Sacco is Art Spiegelman's most talented descendant.\\" - The Economist. Joe Sacco's previous books include Palestine (winner of an American Book Award) and the Eisner Award-winning Safe Area Gorazde\: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992 – 1995. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6\:30 p.m.\, in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information\, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600\, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255\, or see www.townhallseattle.org.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100115T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100115T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/simon URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/simon SUMMARY:BRYANT SIMON DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100115T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100115T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/mate URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/mate SUMMARY:GABOR MATE at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100116T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/opera URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/opera SUMMARY:SEATTLE OPERA presents ASPECTS OF \\"IL TROVATORE\\" DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100117T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100117T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/say URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/say SUMMARY:ALLEN SAY at Seattle Public Central Library DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100119T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100119T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/patel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/patel SUMMARY:RAJ PATEL at Town Hall Seattle DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100120T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100120T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/sfbookclub URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/sfbookclub SUMMARY:SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASTY BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100121T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/powers URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/powers SUMMARY:JACQUELINE POWERS DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100122T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100122T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/niffenegger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/niffenegger SUMMARY:AUDREY NIFFENEGGER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/putnam URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/putnam SUMMARY:ANN PUTNAM DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100123T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/rinzler URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/rinzler SUMMARY:ALAN RINZLER DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100124T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100124T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/posner URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/posner SUMMARY:RICK POSNER DESCRIPTION:

Jefferson County Open School in Lakewood\, Colorado\, a public alternative school in which standardization rampant in schools today is replaced with a personalized\, well-rounded education that nurtures enthusiasm and plants seeds of hope. Veteran teacher and former Open School principal Rick Posner tells the story of this school and its alumni in his book\, Lives of Passion\, School of Hope (Sentient Publications). \\"Lives of Passion\, School of Hope is a refreshing antidote to the arid and pinched view of education and school reform suffocating and strangling any clear thinking in the public square today. In this essential and urgent book\, Posner illuminates the vital work of a single school\, and maps a way out of the mess we're in.\\" - William Ayres. Many Open School alums have relocated to the Seattle area\, and are expected to attend.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100126T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100126T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/mengiste URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/mengiste SUMMARY:MAAZA MENGISTE at the Northwest African American Museum DESCRIPTION:

Co-presented with the Northwest African American Museum. Taking place at the Northwest African American Museum\, which has its wonderful exhibit on Ethiopians in the Northwest\, \\"East by Northwest\,\\" on display\, is this reading by Addis Ababa-born debut novelist Maaza Mengiste. Beneath the Lion's Gaze (W.W. Norton) is a powerful novel set in motion by Ethiopia's wrenching 1974 revolution. \\" ... Beneath the Lion's Gaze is an extraordinary novel\, which ... tells stories nobody can want to hear\, in such a way that we cannot stop listening. Although set more than thirty years ago\, Mengiste's novel is timely and vital\: Its illumination of a world unfamiliar to most Americans shows us how individuals will fight to retain their humanity in the face of atrocity.\\" - Claire Messud\, Bookforum. \\"With words that make 'a faint\, tender bruise' on the page\, and a compassionate imagination that transforms everything it touches on\, Maaza Mengiste delivers an important story from a part of Africa too long silent in the World Republic of Letters.\\" - Chris Abani. Free admission. The Northwest African American Museum (www.naamnw.org) is at 2300 South Massachusetts Street in Seattle's Rainier Valley.
Also\, following at 9 p.m.\: Debut Lit\, a national organization (www.debutlit.com) dedicated to promoting new authors\, hosts a gathering with Maaza Mengiste at Hidmo (www.hidmo.org)\, the popular Eritrean café\;/club at 2000 South Jackson (quite near the reading at NAAM).

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100126T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100126T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/kostova URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/kostova SUMMARY:ELIZABETH KOSTOVA DESCRIPTION:

Whatever activity the new year has borne so far\, it bursts into true bustle\, hard choices\, etc.\, this evening. At Elliott Bay\, Elizabeth Kostova\, who captivated readers everywhere five years ago with her compelling debut novel\, The Historian\, makes this welcome return with her much-anticipated second novel\, The Swan Thieves (Little\, Brown). Ranging over a century in time (late 19th century to late 20th) and from museums and cities in the U.S. to the Normandy coast\, this new book is rich in art\, ardor\, and obsession. An art-loving psychiatrist takes as a patient an eminent artist who has seemingly lost himself in attacking a painting at the National Gallery of Art. \\" ... [an] extravagantly ] romantic novel about love\, madness\, and art ... [Kostova's] writing about painting is frequently stunning\, both in her meticulous descriptions of the techniques of the craft and her cinematic portrayals of the paintings themselves ... fans of other novels about painters ... are sure to love this one.\\" - Joanne Wilkinson\, Booklist.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100126T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100126T033000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/smith URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/smith SUMMARY:PATTI SMITH at Benaroya Hall DESCRIPTION:

Presented by SEATTLE ARTS &\; LECTURES. She has cast herself powerfully—\;on stage and page—\;for over thirty years. Music\, writing\, performance\, sheer driven energy—\;a cultural force. All of that and Patti Smith has never put herself down on paper as she has with her luminous new memoir\, Just Kids (Ecco). \\"Musician\, poet and visual artist Smith chronicles her intense life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the 1960s and 70s\, when both artists came of age in downtown New York ... Writing with wonderful immediacy\, Smith tells the affecting story of their entwined young lives as lovers\, friends and muses to one another ... Riveting and exquisitely crafted.\\" - Kirkus Reviews. Tickets and information via Seattle Arts &\; Lectures at www.lectures.org\, (206) 621-2230. Benaroya Hall is at 200 University Street.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T013000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/drama URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/drama SUMMARY:STAGES - ELLIOTT BAY DRAMA BOOK GROUP DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100127T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/stern URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/stern SUMMARY:KEITH STERN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100128T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100128T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/bluebegonia URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/bluebegonia SUMMARY:BLUE BEGONIA PRESS presents BILL RANSOM\, DAN PETERS & JIM BODEEN DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100129T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100129T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/shortridge URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/shortridge SUMMARY:JENNIE SHORTRIDGE DESCRIPTION:

Seattle writer Jennie Shortridge\, part of a veritable boom of fiction by local authors that saw books released in 2009\, makes this welcome return visit with her newest\, When She Flew (NAL/Penguin). \\"... A taut\, beautifully rendered novel about an injured war veteran\, his bright young daughter\, and a street-smart police officer who has lost almost more than she can bear. When their lives become entangled\, what results has all the urgency of a thriller and offers a moving exploration of parental love and the lengths to which one person will go to take care of another.\\" - Marisa de los Santos. \\"Jennie Shortridge has done it again. Her novels are delightful and compelling stories of real-world characters in mildly dysfunctional lives struggling for wisdom.\\" -Selden Edwards.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100130T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100130T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/oconnor URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/oconnor SUMMARY:MIKE O'CONNOR DESCRIPTION:

Noted Northwest poet\, writer\, editor/publisher (Empty Bowl Press)\, and translator of Chinese literature\, Mike O'Connor has been winning praise and recognition for his wonderful book of autobiographical stories\, Unnecessary Talking\: The Montesano Stories (Pleasure Boat Studio). \\"With its winding episodic structure\, intrinsic good heartedness\, and flawless storytelling\, Unnecessary Talking feels like childhood—\;cocooned by family but plumbed with vast and thrilling occasions for interesting trouble. Mike O'Connor's tales and tall tales read like a travelogue from a distant land\, a place anyone who has had a youthful adventure will recognize and celebrate—\;and long to visit again.\\" - Adrienne Harun.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100130T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100130T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/needleman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/needleman SUMMARY:JACOB NEEDLEMAN DESCRIPTION:

San Francisco-based religious studies scholar and philosopher Jacob Needleman makes this welcome Elliott Bay return\, sharing his insights with truth-seekers from all walks of life\, insights from many religious texts\, and stories from his own spiritual quest\, as he takes on the question posed by his newest book's title\, What is God? (Tarcher). Here he builds the case for a new way of understanding the 'higher power.' Jacob Needleman's books include Lost Christianity and Why Can't We Be Good. \\"As usual\, Jacob Needleman gets to the heart of the matter with eloquence and efficiency. Perhaps it would be better to say the dark heart of the matter\, for we find ourselves beset with trials and tribulations of our own shameful making. How to get out? Here is the road map—\;with a beautiful speck of life at the end of a very difficult path.\\" - Ken Burns.

END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100131T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100131T030000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/bowe URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/bowe SUMMARY:JOHN BOWE DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T184559Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100131T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100131T220000Z UID:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/ballet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan10/ballet SUMMARY:Conversations with PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET presents THE SLEEPING BEAUTY DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR